Editorial: Leaders must address climate change

Climate change is a myth if you believe those who don't talk about it, such as both of the major presidential candidates and moderators of the debates, except for Mitt Romney's light-hearted reference to it. The disappearing ice of the oceans can change ocean currents and this air flow. The oceans are 30 percent more acid than formerly. The historic recent hurricane of the west Atlantic is all part of this.

Crops we grow depend upon not having even small changes in their surrounding fossil fuels. You can expect further global warming. It is my understanding that this planet may be able to support 10 billion people. We are now at more than 7 billion, up from about 1 billion only about 80 years ago. It is appalling that the political people do not feel climate change is a subject worth talking about.

We have children and grandchildren who are going to have to cope with it. Those who dismiss this phenomena as a a fairy tale must wake up, otherwise the developing nightmare will only get worse. And I have not even mentioned the effects upon populations resulting from the rising sea levels which is reality and will get worse.